When we bought tiny home it came with a few vintage
treasures. In the kitchen there were
these cute curtains from the late 60’s.
I thought my grandma might have sewn them, because she had the same
curtains in her home in Oregon
when I was a little girl. Turns out when
I went to take them down they had tags in them.
The tags were almost worn to shreds, but one was intact and … [Read more...]

I showed you how to take a shrunken wool sweater and make it into a sweater vest
Here: (Re-Fashioned Sweater Vest). Now we are going to use the arms of the shrunken vest to make trendy arm warmers.
Arm Warmers:
1- Cut the sleeves off of a felted wool sweater. If you do not use a felted wool sweater you will risk the tragedy of having your arm warmers unravel. You could always hem the … [Read more...]

Well that day has finally come. I am officially the aunt who gives her niece a crazy Christmas sweater.
I had this sweater from my collection of sweaters that I have been wanting to do something with. Since the sweater is felted and has shrunk significantly I wanted to make it into a sweater vest for my niece who is 15.
Here are the steps:
1. Cut off the sleeves, leaving a cap sleeve on … [Read more...]

I have been in a blogging slump. I have had dozens of awesome things happen over the past couple of months that I would love to documents here on this blog. I just have so many things; I don’t know where to begin.
So if I don’t ever get to posting about all this goodness here is my list….
If I were to blog and catch up on things, here are the titles of my catch up list starting with … [Read more...]

I found this cute dress at the Other Mother’s quarter sale. I thought I could make it into a skirt due to stains on the top. It was a quick and simple fix.
Stained Baby Dress
I trimmed about an inch and a half above the skirt and then turned the fabric under making a waistband, then stitched around to complete it. I used the bottom button of the dress for the waistband in the skirt.
Trimmed … [Read more...]

I have had the crafting itch for a while. I have wanted to make a flannel blanket for this baby that is on its way.
I found a bag of flannel pieces, at a local thrift store. There was a variety of light colors. It got my little crafting wheels turning and I decided that I could use some of the pieces to create a forest mosaic blanket for my little boy (good thing my intuition was right!). Most of … [Read more...]

Last week was Baby J’s first birthday. Since I had a cute t-shirt and tutu for Lil’Misses birthday, I wanted to do a little something for her best buddy, Baby J. So I came up with a little ruffle tie with a first birthday hat.
Materials: 2 old t-shirts of coordinating colors, white felt, elastic, new onesie or shirt
I first cut the back off of an old children’s shirt. Then cut ½” strips of … [Read more...]

I have been wanting to try out this project for a while and finally got around to it.
Lil’Miss had these bum overalls that never stayed snapped. I decided rather than pass on a bad pair of overalls to someone else or throwing them out, I would made a new outfit.
Originally I wanted to use these two children’s shirts. It turns out that the diameter was only slightly larger than the overalls … [Read more...]

**One thing that I will do differently next time is use a zig zag stitch. I haven't worked much with knits. Let me know if there are other stitches out there I should be using. Now I have white leggings for my Lil'Miss to wear under her dresses. … [Read more...]